This is hardly thread worthy but I thought it was interesting..
So out of 20 million plus brackets filled out on ESPN there's one perfect one left. I hope he's right.
http://games.espn.go.com/tournament-challenge-bracket/en/entry?entryID=4...
I can't lie, I was ready to
Me too
But his disclaimer disarmed me...
not just "douchey" MGoBlog user, but now TRUSTED MGoBlog user
That's a hell of a title
That's a hell of a title game. I hope he's right
"I think Hoke has changed the tide on the rivalry. Hell people in Ohio are starting to believe him. Never in a million years I would have thought that. Selling Michigan jerseys is a good start."
I hope he's right about half
I hope he's right about half of the title game, but I want to see ND knocked out by Iowa State tonight.
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Do you get anything for
Do you get anything for having the least perfect bracket? My West Region is nothing but red.
In 8th grade I had a teacher
In 8th grade I had a teacher who offered a perfect A in every class to the student who got every game wrong (which, when you think about, would be an amazing feat) with other more innocuous incentives to whomever won the whole thing.
Now that I think about it, that was freaking insane on his part. And he was also a major Sparty brah (treated Michigan fans in his class like shit. Yes, 13-14 year olds). I guess his level of respect for school work makes a lot of sense then.
Not that I loved Rich Rod less, but that I loved Michigan more.
It was so crazy that I didn't
It was so crazy that I didn't believe it...until you explained he was a Sparty Brah.
I wasn't aware that Dantonio
I wasn't aware that Dantonio ever taught 8th grade. Interesting.
Sooooo
Zero perfect brackets then. Colorado is going to lose and overall this bracket past round 2 is a joke.
How can you say the best
How can you say the best bracket in the country is a joke? It's all about luck. There's no predicting what will happen in the late rounds any more than you can predict the early rounds. IF the big boys are in the final 4 they pretty much always win. That's just about the only sure thing in the tournament, and even that doesn't come true 100% of the time (see Butler in whatever year that was that they were in the final). If you really knew what is and isn't a joke you would probably have the perfect bracket instead of this guy wouldn't you?
"Michigan Defense" is dominating everything, in every aspect of life. That's a rough definition.
-Craig Roh 10/29/2011
It isn't the best.
It has slightly more than 0% probability of having any of those in the Final Four. 1, 2, and 3 seeds fill the majority of those slots. You can calculate that probability. And the truth is if the content was picking the first round games he'd be the best but since it's not he'll finish in the bottom section of millions.
"I love him, he's a great coach, he's a great mentor, he's a great friend. He's every single thing you want a college coach to be, and he does it flawlessly." -David Molk
Actually, statistically
Actually, statistically speaking, the later rounds tend to be easier to pick than the earlier ones.
He's about to lose that if
He's about to lose that if Colorado loses
"Ohio is like a giant turd that Michigan just can't pinch off"
If Illinois hangs on, he
If Illinois hangs on, he might lose his perfection. However, it's his end result that matters most.
GO BLUE! MClub supports you.
He has Marquette in the final
He has Marquette in the final Four. Of course he is wrong.
but srs, that would be amazing.
"Oh no, no, I'm not in the group yet. No, I'm afraid I just blue myself."
I hope he is right but my BIG
I hope he is right but my BIG rooting dies after the sweet 16 (except for Michigan). I want as many BIG teams to go to the sweet 16 then I don't care. Go Blue! Beat VCU!
3-3-5 til the day I die y'all
I guess to each his own, but
I guess to each his own, but that's when rooting for the Big Ten means the most, IMO. Illinois beating Colorado only to lose to Miami means very little. But having a team or two in the Final Four is big and having one win it all is huge.
A big knock against us is that the Big Ten has won so few national titles lately. Does it hurt Michigan for another Big Ten team to win the tourney? Kids like to play in the best leagues against the best teams. In basketball, there is so much less head-to-head recruiting that it really doesn't matter, and it helps everyone in the conference when its teams are winning.
That, and the conference makes more money, which gets shared with Michigan.
annnnnd its
annnnnd its gone!
colorado goes down.
My brackets not perfect but I
My brackets not perfect but I do have ole miss in the sweet sixteen as well as zona. Only missed temple, cal, Pitt so far.
There is god, there is family, and then there is MICHIGAN FOOTBALL
And this, kids, is what we
And this, kids, is what we call a liar.
You picked Harvard over New
You picked Harvard over New Mexico, huh?
And La Salle over KSU!
And La Salle over KSU!
I have a gimmick bracket...
or whatever you want to call brackets made to fit a certain role (this one is "Best March Ever") that has Harvard over New Mexico, Cal over UNLV and Saint Louis over New Mexico State. That said, it has Cincinnati and Pitt in the Final Four and Duke, MSU and OSU losing in the first round, so it's not like that's an accurate attempt to pick the field, more of a coincidence than anything else.
Go Blue!
This just goes to show how
This just goes to show how much filling out brackets is a crap shoot. Congrats on 22/22, but that bracket is terrible.
/endbitterrant
Buffs ruin it.
Well now that Illinois pretty much won this one, there is one perfect bracket left on yahoo.
Is ESPN having the new Pope
Is ESPN having the new Pope do a bracket now?
"Michigan Defense" is dominating everything, in every aspect of life. That's a rough definition.
-Craig Roh 10/29/2011
One in TSN's pool as well
One in TSN's pool as well (they run their's using ESPN's accounts).
http://games.espn.go.com/tournament-challenge-bracket/en_CA/entry?entryI...
This one has 3 Big East teams in the Final 4.
Not me,
Thanks Wisconsin. Why did you wait until today to prove you suck?
What I think is funny is that
What I think is funny is that If the people with perfect brackets had shown their picks before the tourny started they would've been laughed at by anybody who knows anything about basketball.
To have a perfect bracket you basically have to know NOTHING about the teams playing or there is no way you'd select all the games right.
That's my problem. I'm too
That's my problem. I'm too smart and therefore my bracket is now one big steaming pile of dung. Damn you brain! DAMN YOU!!
A few years ago my daughter,
A few years ago my daughter, who knows less about basketball than I do Japanese, asked me "what colors do team X wear?" She was filling out a bracket for a FaceBook challenge and made all of her selections based on which color uni's she liked the best. I laughed my ass off as her picks made zero sense to me (Butler in the finals? yeah right) but she sent it in anyways without my expertise.
She finished in the top 10 of all people submitting.
This would have been more
This would have been more persuasive were you not a scholar in Japanese.
If these people really "knew
If these people really "knew so much about college basketball," they probably wouldn't have been laughing. To guess all the upsets, you have to be lucky, not stupid.
I think Nate Silver or someone...
Someone calculated the chance of getting a bracket 100% right at 1 in 7 trillion.
neoavatara.com/blog
Those are actually good
Those are actually good odds.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/gameon/2013/03/19/ncaa-tournament-perfect-...
Here are the numbers from the article with bonus Duke troll
The 1 in 9.2 quintillion number is straight mathematics. It figures out how many possible ways the 63 game results on your bracket could be filled out. (Two to the sixty-third power.)
But it doesn't account for standard basketball logic, like No. 1 seeds always advancing in the first round or tournament champions usually having a top-four seed or Duke's dual advantage of having a legend like Coach K and never getting called for a blocking foul. If you know something about the NCAA tournament, the odds of a perfect bracket are more like 1 in 128 billion. (That's according to DePaul math professor Jay Bergen.)
Using that number, if everyone in the United States filled out a bracket, we'd see a perfect one every 400 years.
Hasta el culoooooo!
Hasta el culoooooo!
My bracket is royally fucked.
My bracket is royally fucked.
If at first you don't succeed, skydiving isn't for you.
Who is mgoblue8588?
I was looking at the brackets and saw them in second with only one miss so far.
Busted.
It's me.
All-Time First
I wonder if Mr Perfect
I wonder if Mr Perfect Bracket guy thought Georgetown would lose to the vaunted and long-standing basketball power Florida Gulf Coast
I believe
FGCU beat the University of Miami (ytm) at the beginning of the season.
My bracket is so fucked now
My bracket is so fucked now that I'm just rooting for ALL THE UPSETS! FGCU!!! GREATEST UNIVERSITY EVER!!!
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No longer perfect, Georgetown
No longer perfect, Georgetown just lost to Florida Gulf Coast.
Ed: Also Illinois beat Colorado.
HAIL.
Georgetown losing
Georgetown losing miiiigggghhhhttt help Michigan. I'm looking wayyyy down the road...but they are in the same region.
Root for Kansas to lose tonight. Michigan win tomorrow...final 4.
What every longshot, come from behind, underdog will tell ya is this... The other guy, may in fact, be the favorite. The odds may be stacked against you, fair enough. But what the odds don't know is...this isn't a math test.
If Kansas loses I'd piss my
If Kansas loses I'd piss my pants. No 16 seed has ever beaten a 1 seed and that makes a final four run very likely for Michigan.
Of course, nothing matters if we don't beat VCU tomorrow.
HAIL.
My quest
My quest for the perfect bracket died when Valpo lost.
And with FGCU's win, down
And with FGCU's win, down goes the final victor.
Every year I get so amped and
Every year I get so amped and my love for this time of year comes out full steam, the brackets being part of the love for March Madness. Then Saturday and Sunday come, each year, and I realize how much emotional waste I've built up in hopes for being the ultimate bracket builder and succumb to minor depression while people with absolutely no clue ride these ridiculously lucky brackets. Such a rollercoaster time of year.
Amen. The year I won the
Amen. The year I won the office pool was actually only slightly more fun than the year I missed the deadline to submit a bracket and just had fun watching upsets and rooting for all the cinderellas.
I can't lie, I was ready to neg you when I clicked on this thread.
Not that I loved Rich Rod less, but that I loved Michigan more.